And Darkness Rained Upon Them

Inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons adventure premise #137: Diplomatic mission to a kobold warren culminating in a personal audience with what appears to be a shitty cardboard puppet made up to resemble a dragon, but is in fact a real dragon that just looks like that.

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

Now, all previous posting aside. Bruce Wayne arguing to a jury of his peers that a villain being ready to fight Batman in costume upon Batman's arrival isn't actually particularly good evidence that he did the specific thing that Batman was after him for? On the grounds that it's entirely rational for even a totally reformed villain who's gotten advance warning of Batman Being After Him For Something Really Bad to get ready for a really horrible fight? Because there's very little reason to assume that Batman in Righteous Crusader Mode is going to open with a friendly chat? All serving as a dialogue that Batman is having with himself about the moral veracity of his SOP if you take away the genre assumptions of his innate righteousness? Is a really really good beat

On the one hand, I actually do consider the use of Freeze Specifically to be one of the elements of this arc that wasn't executed to my satisfaction, for essentially the reason's that you're describing. On the significantly more relevant hand, though, you could swap in literally almost any member of the rogues gallery into the position that Freeze holds in this narrative and the broader rhetorical point being advanced by the arc- that the default figure of the superhero is lent undue cultural deference when it comes to who they choose to attack and when- remains entirely functional. Approach this from the perspective of a casual reader unaware or uninvested in Victor's tragic backstory and engage with this purely at the level of archetypes and I think it coheres much better; for this reason I almost made the suggestion that this would have functioned better as an independently-published pastiche, except for the fact that the entire argument draws heavy rhetorical power from the fact that Batman and not some storebrand knockoff is the one arguing against himself.

They missed. 😔

i'm going to be honest. the funniest star wars theory i've ever read, that still makes me laugh at random times, is that the jedi council knighted anakin so quickly after AOTC because he was way more relaxed all the time, a lot more peaceful. but it was just that he and padme had a rather active honeymoon phase and he was in a perpetual afterglow, but the jedi thought it was evidence of him achieving a new level of emotional control and knighted him, which is like - i cannot explain how funny i think it is

like it honestly just comes down to "having sex with padme amidala could be mistaken for inner peace" which, like, damn. incredible take.

it really make you thing ☝️💡

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭

Immediately I love him